Biography of A. T. Stover - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 109

A. T. Stover, one of the leading farmers of Lick Mountain Township,
is a native of Lawrence County, Ala., born 1850, and is a son of
Lorenzo Dow and Amanda M. (Barnes) Stover, who were also natives of
Lawrence County, where Mr. Stover still resides, aged about 58 years.
His wife died in 1881, a member of the Methodist Church.

Mr. Stover is a farmer and mechanic, and for some years was engaged
in the mill business. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and
a son of Abraham Stover, a Virginian by birth, but married in Tennessee,
and an early settler of Lawrence County, Ala., where he spent his
remaining years, dying just prior to the late war. He was a farmer
and miller, and served in the war of 1812. Grandfather Thomas Barnes
was also an early settler of Lawrence County, Ala., where he died a
farmer.

A. T. Stover is the second of a family of six sons and three daughters.
He was reared on a farm, educated at the country schools, and in 1872
married Mary E., a daughter of John and Serilda Stephenson, who were
natives of Morgan County, Ala., and of Kentucky, respectively. They
were married in Morgan County, where they still reside. Mr. and Mrs.
Stover are the parents of five children. After his marriage, Mr. Stover
resided in Morgan County till 1883, when he came to Conway County and
farmed as a tenant till 1887, when he purchased his present farm of
160 acres, about eighty-five of which are under cultivation. It is
located in a fine valley two and one-half miles east of Lick Mountain
Postoffice.

Mrs. Stover is a Methodist. Politically Mr. Stover is a Democrat. The
other members of the family are Colorado, the wife of James M. Rhodes;
Lorenzo Dow, and James W., both of Van Buren County; Daniel W., of
Alabama, and Elva Lear, now Mrs. J. I. Rogers, of Texas.